April 23, 2017

Well.  I'm a Primary teacher now.  And I can't remember the last time I was one.

Even though I found out about my new calling just a few minutes before church, I offered to start my new position today.  They assigned me to Austin's little class.  I loved it from the first minute I started.  We were supposed to be talking about prophets and revelation, but I did my best to bring the spirit into the classroom with very little preparation.  I started with asking them about some of the things the prophet wants us to do, and they got a little confused by laws of the land and commandments.  So that led us into a little discussion about being honest and obeying the law of the land AND the commandments of God.  Not all commandments are laws, but we should try to obey all the laws.  We talked a little bit about honesty because someone brought up the story of an acquaintance's uncle who had robbed a bank.  Luckily, I had just read my boys a bedtime story from the Children's Friend magazine about honesty.  As I leaned forward in my chair and gave them a detailed retelling of the story, they were all mesmerized.  We all felt the spirit and those little 7 and 8 year olds just burst with things they needed and wanted to share about being honest.  It turned out to be a really great lesson with those little ones.  Sharing time was just great too.  I was happy to sing the songs and feel my heart swell with love for these little children.  I think this is going to work out very nicely.

Mom and Austin--getting ready for church

So thankful for these little ones!